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Parachute Wings

November 11, 2021 by Diane Greig

Celine parachuted into France ten days before D-Day to courier and train maquis groups in weaponry behind the lines (Invisible Women Episode 7). In 2005 she told me that in training with the Special …

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Infiltrating the IRA

November 1, 2021 by Diane Greig

As I landed in Northern Ireland rain was running across the plane’s windows and although the ground scape looked rather bleak, the old wooden out-buildings were a captivating aqua marine blue …

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2021 Davey Award

October 27, 2021 by Admin

Invisible Women has won a Silver Award in the Documentary & Historical Podcast category. This marks the 17th year for the Davey Awards. It is an international award focused exclusively on …

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Silence of Female Agents

October 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

Are women agents better at remaining silent than their male counterparts when interrogated? In 2005 I interviewed a retired Canadian operative from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) …

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Espionage Conversations

October 24, 2021 by Diane Greig

Present day women writers are correcting the historical loss of women’s espionage narratives by crafting articles and books on the lives of WW 2 and CIA women agents. They are bringing …

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Mona Parsons: The Woman Who Thwarted the Nazi Firing Squad

October 7, 2021 by Diane Greig

On a recent fall trip to Nova Scotia, I stopped at the memorial for Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis in WW 2 for resistance activities.

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Mathematical Wizards

October 4, 2021 by Diane Greig

Although I’ve written Invisible Women articles about American spies operating in the field (Martha Peterson and Elizabeth Bentley) during the Cold War in the U.S. and U.S.S.R., this is the first …

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Idealist, Spy, Defector

September 28, 2021 by Diane Greig

Elizabeth Bentley, an American, graduated from Vassar College in 1930 with a degree in languages. While completing a Master’s degree at Columbia University she won a scholarship to the …

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Cold War Widow

September 27, 2021 by Diane Greig

Martha Peterson commented, “After we were married, he told me he had applied for the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA.” Her husband, like Lilian’s in Invisible Women Ep. 3, as …

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Liberté

September 19, 2021 by Diane Greig

Liberté is a new short film written and acted in by Sam Naz (British broadcaster/actress) about the heroine, Noor Inayat Khan, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who was one of the first women …

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Researching Women’s Stories

September 9, 2021 by Admin

I have been asked “Why did you spend eighteen months researching to locate World War 2 women espionage agents to interview, when there are some historical accounts and novels on the …

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Resistance Youth

September 9, 2021 by Diane Greig

Michelle Corjon, a resistance fighter, was awarded France’s Croix de Guerre and the silver medal for French Resistance. She was the youngest member ever to serve in the French resistance …

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Red Melita

September 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Operation Enormoz was a WW2 Soviet venture to recruit British and American spies who sympathised with communism. Although the Soviet Union had joined forces with the U.S and Britain against Nazi …

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Ordinary People

September 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

In WW 2 and the Cold War many ordinary U.K. and U.S. citizens were approached to become spies for the Soviet Union. The individuals who said yes did so because of unusual circumstances and/or …

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Buffalo Soldier

August 30, 2021 by Diane Greig

Cathay Williams was the first Black woman to become a soldier in the U.S Army and a Buffalo Soldier in the American Indian Wars. Although there were laws against women enlisting, in her determination …

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Gaining Favour

August 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

On the heels of Facebook’s announcement recently that Iranian spies were targeting U.S. medical, military and the technology sectors through social media accounts, Proofpoint, a security …

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Marina Raskova

August 16, 2021 by Diane Greig

Before WW 2 Major Marina Raskova was the first woman to be awarded the distinction of “Hero/ine of the Soviet Union.” She was the first female pilot and navigator for the Soviet Air Force …

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Nadezhda Popova

August 16, 2021 by Diane Greig

“Almost every time we had to sail through a wall of enemy fire,” Nadezhda Popova stated. She became the WW 2 deputy commander of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, flying 852 missions bombing Nazi …

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Women Night Bombardiers

August 14, 2021 by Diane Greig

The Nachthexen or Night Witches of WW 2, as the Nazis nicknamed them, would swoop down without a sound except for the momentary whooshing of their plywood planes just before they dropped their bombs. …

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Festival of Readers and Writers

August 10, 2021 by Diane Greig

It was a lovely weekend on Bowen Island (Aug 7-8, 2021) to celebrate the island’s creative spirit and its local performers and writers of scripts, poetry, novels, and magazines. The annual Write …

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Shaping Espionage

August 7, 2021 by Diane Greig

In 1777 George Washington wrote a letter to Nathaniel Sackett engaging him to organise an espionage network and to spy for the Continental Army. Washington asked Sackett because he had produced the …

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Canada’s Secret Service

August 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Women have been appointed to lead the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s (CSIS), Toronto office; Katherine Hannah is head of Canada’s largest intelligence gathering office and Zahra …

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Codename Cynthia

July 29, 2021 by Diane Greig

Canadian spymaster Sir William Stephenson, known as Intrepid, who directed British Security Coordination for the Western Hemisphere said that Amy Thorpe Pack Brousse, an American citizen, was …

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Secret Facebook Army

July 29, 2021 by Diane Greig

There is a secret Iranian army on Facebook to surveil, steal and undermine U.S., European, and U.K. interests and products across all the major industrial sectors including aerospace/defence and …

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